The Latin American Library presents a series of exhibits in the display cases inside the entrance to LAL on the fourth floor of Howard-Tilton Memorial Library. The Latin American Library additionally offers occasional seminars and other events.
Currently on Display
Selected Brasiliana of the Latin American Library
In conjunction with the Brazilian Studies Association Conference (March 27-29), the Latin American Library currently is displaying a broad selection of colonial-era, nineteenth century, and modern Brazilian materials from the archives of the Latin American Library. Featured items include Historia naturalis Brasilae by Willem Piso (Amsterdam, 1648), selections from the Revista Illustrada, the first edition of Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis, Ballard S. Dunn's Brazil: Home for the Southerners (1866), Adolfo Caminha's No Paiz dos Yankees (1894), photographs by Marc Ferrez, and the Brazilian postcard collection of Stanford professor and popular radio host Ronald Hilton.
Curated by David Dressing and Sean Knowlton with assistance from Hortensia Calvo, Christopher Dunn, Luciana Monteiro, and Ana Villar.
Visual Impressions: 50 Years of the Fulbright Commission in Brazil
Curated by João Kulcsár.
Past Exhibits
- Sacred Cenotes, Hidden Caverns: Fifty Years of Research in the Maya Area (February 13 – March 18, 2008)
- Shooting a Revolution: Photographs of Cuba (November 9 - 20, 2007)
- Travels to Haiti: A Voyage through Books and Maps (February - May, 2005)
- En Testimonio de Verdad: Scribes and Notarial Documents (April, 2005)
- Nahua Pictorial and Written Manuscripts (January, 2005)
- Between Race and Place (Prepared in conjunction with the Stone Center-sponsored conference, Nov., 2004 )
- Fifteen Centuries of Maya Literature from the Maya Lowlands (October - November, 2004)
- William Spratling: Sketches from Mexico (March, 2004)
- Caribbean Images (Spring, 2004)
- Reinventing Carnival in the Americas (Spring, 2004)
- Nativities/Nacimientos (December, 2003)
- Day of the Dead (October - November, 2002)
- Sources of the Collection (Summer, 2002)
- Tropicália: Brazilian Music and Culture of the 1960s (Winter - Spring, 2002)
- Historical Maps of Central America, Chiapas and Yucatán (Summer, 2001)
- Sidney David Markman Photographs of Antigua, Guatemala (Spring, 2001)
- Visions of Ecuador: Images from the Keleman Collection (April - May, 2000)
- A Journey Through El Dorado: Images of Colombia from the Kelemen Collection (March - May, 2000)
- The Lost Churches of Sonora: Photographs from the Pál and Elisabeth Kelemen Collection (January - March, 2000)
- An Exhibition of the Partido Guatemalteco del Trabajo Papers (May, 1999)
- The Pearl of the Antilles and the Crescent City: Historic Maps of the Caribbean (January - February, 1999)
- Textiles of Guatemala (October, 1998)
- The Maya Rubbings of Merle Greene Robertson (January - June, 1997)
- The Feast of Espírito Santo in Portugal, the Azores Islands, and Brazil (May, 1996)
- A Sampler of Manuscripts and Photographs from the Latin American Library (April, 1996)
- The Paper Art of Mexico (May - September, 1994)
- Early Chronicles of the Americas in Manuscripts and Printed Books (July, 1991)
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